The Lithuanian folk household museum located in Rumšiškės has an escape room where visitors can feel the part of a young man hunted to join the tsar's army and try to escape from such a fate.
Visitors will be able to try this room after the end of the quarantine.
According to the museum, the escape room is located in an authentic 25th-century shed, reminiscent of the cruel times of serfdom and the capture of recruits, whose service lasted for XNUMX years.
"Imagine the era of Balana's disaster - there is not only electricity, radio and television, any telephone, anything mobile - there is no Internet, e-mail. The only media available to the village are rumors and the sounds of the parish church bell, which are spread at a similar distance, inviting people to worship, escorting them on their last journey, announcing fires or other disasters threatening the community," the museum writes.
Those caught were shackled with iron shackles or two rolling blocks with holes dug for the legs. They were kept in one of the catchers' huts for about two months until further delivery.
This is the kind of shed that visitors to the escape room will end up in.
"At that time, those who were locked up, trying to free themselves, usually heard the screeching of the wheels. It was a sign that a substation was coming - a carriage for transportation to Kaunas and delivery to service in the tsar's army. Imagine that such a fate befell you and now it is in your own hands. If one ran away, they would take anyone else out in his place. Working together, try to do it in one hour!", the museum's announcement reads.
The escape room was installed in the Kartena homestead of the household museum, in the Žemaitija sector, as part of a project partially financed by the Lithuanian Council of Culture.
The room was furnished by the Rūsys team of escape room developers.
